Anyone researching the Faught family from Rathkeale and surroundings? My gggrandfather, William Highfield Faught was born in Ireland in the 1820's and eventually ended up in Brooklyn in the late 1870's. He disappeared by 1880.
Would like to know who his parents were.
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Wm. Highfield Faught's parents were Francis Faught & Elizabeth Hifle. Francis's parents were John Faught b. 1755 & Margaret Veil. John Faught's parents were Lawrence Faught b. 1730 & Catherine Miller b. 1732. Catherine Miller's parents were Adam Miller b. 1701 & Mary Lawrence. Mary Lawrence was the daughter of Johann Lorentz & Margrath Roeckel.
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Got your reply. Curious to know where you got your information. I have the same data but wasn't sure it was accurate as I kept coming up with dead ends in trying to link them all together (never found a listing of William with Francis' family, for instance). Had surmised that William's mother's maiden name was Hifle (seemed to fit with Highfield as his middle name). Thanks for the information. Would also like to find relatives from the family.
Eileen
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William H. Faught was actually William Haughton Faught, son of Michael Faught and Mary Hifle (Highfield). His brother was named John Highfield Faught, thus the confusion. Michael and Mary were married in Kilkenny and may have been part of the Palatine community that settled in the Kilkenny/Tipperary area.
Michael and family were in Dublin in the 1850s. He was a shoemaker/bootmaker as were other Faughts. William married Rebecca Ann Walker in 1861 and they had a child, Margaret, in 1862. He left Ireland sometime before 1868 (John died in 1866). Don't know if he deserted his wife and daughter or whether they had died by then but he married my gggrandmother in New York City in 1869 (and deserted her less than 10 years later).
Does anyone have information on this branch of the Faughts?
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I believe that I must have a blood relationship to this line of Faughts. My g-g-grandfather, Richard Faught (1797-1871), was b. Ireland, son of a Michael Faught. He married at Dublin, Ireland 20 Apr 1819 Mary Ann Gordon and soon after emigrated to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Richard and Mary Ann were the parents of Wellington Highfield Faught (1845-1926). Their daughter Mary Ellen m. my great-grandfather William Boyle in Charlottetown. Their use of the name Highfield for their last (and 13th) child seems significant.
Fred Boyle, Springvale, ME
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There is definitely a link between our families. The fact that Richard was a "shoe cutter" and Wellington's middle name was Highfield make it a cinch. My Michael Faught was a shoemaker in Dublin as were many other Faughts. Where and how we link up is the puzzle. I saw that one of Wellington's brothers was named Francis. There was a Francis Faught whose family emigrated to Ontario about the same time your family came over. Is it possible that your Richard, my Michael, and Francis were brothers? That could explain the "Highfield" middle name (my Michael married Mary Highfield).
When I received your note I started looking into the LDS records and found the marriage date for Richard and Mary Ann, but the location shown was St. Michael's Parish, Limerick. That would have made sense since the Faughts didn't seem to go to Dublin until a bit later. Is your family Methodist? Many of the Palatines became Methodist after hearing John Wesley speak. They had lost their German roots and church and found Methodism a good substitute. My ggggrandfather was married in a Methodist Church in New York City and had worked as a sexton in a Methodist Church in Dublin.
Also interesting that Richard and family lived in Boston in 1855. Did they move to Maine? In researching the family I found Faughts who lived in Maine and wondered if any were related.
Am looking forward to hearing from you...this is really exciting as I had never found any other Faughts who seemed to be related.
Eileen
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Dear Eileen: I am very pleased, too. I'll answer a few questions and then get into my surmisal.
Yes, my family was Methodist, at least I know that the Boyles were. Mary Ellen Faught was my grandfather Boyle's mother, so it figures. The Faughts stayed in Charlottetown. The only one that I know who went to the Boston area was Dorcas Cooke. (I need to check her death record.) My father had contact with someone named Gamble who was part of Dorcas's family. My father's middle name was Wellington for his Uncle Wellington Faught.
It was a long time ago that I got the marriage record for Richard and Mary Ann. As I remember I found the marriage record for both Dublin and Limerick. I'll change my tree to read Limerick.
If my Richard was the son of Michael why couldn't he have been the son of Mary Highfield, too? (You have John and Margaret (Viel) as the parents of a Michael.) We need to get a better dob for Mary Highfield. If Michael, b. 1775 and d. 1805, he would be the right age to have been Richard's father (1797). How many children do you figure Michael and Mary had?
I started reading about the German Palatine refugees last night. The movement away from the Palatinate started in 1709 during the War of the Spanish Succession when the French invaded southeastern part of "Germany." There was great famine. Looks like the Palatines also went to New York State and to England, as well as Ireland.
About my family. The Boyles were Protestants in co. Kilkenny, Ireland. They went to PEI about the same time that the Faughts were leaving Ireland. My g-grandfather, William Boyle, went into Charlottetown from Cornwall where his father and mother are buried. He was a tanner and did very well. His large duplex house is still standing. My grandfather went to McGill in Montreal and became a medical doctor. He took up practice in Carbonear, Newfoundland where he married and raised a large family. One of my uncles was Director of Physics for the National Research of Canada. Another was a medical doctor who became superintendent of two tuberculosis sanitariums in Mass. My grandparents went to the Boston area in retirement as their children had moved away. My father didn't go to the Boston area until the late twenties (from Alberta) because his parents were there. I was born in Boston in 1930 and am a retired high school teacher, as well as (since 1985) a professional genealogist. After writing eight books I decided that it was time to return to my own family. Ergo, the Faught search. (I have visited Charlottetown twice in the last five years where I have a third Boyle cousin still living.) My (second) wife, since 1964, was from Maine and so we retired here in 1985.
I'll see what Dorcas's death record says.
I am so glad that I found your message.
Cheers! Fred
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Sorry it took so long to get back to you. I had expected a notification when you replied and did not get one. Luckily I checked back and found your note. Rather than going back and forth through Ancestry would you please Email me at fritzgla11@att.net. I have many articles and references on the Palatines and the Faughts. In a "former life" I was a US history teacher and have been doing my family's history since 1976.
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